June 15, 2005

I don't know...

...maybe it's just psychosomatic. Maybe it's just sympathetic symptoms. But the sudden onset of a sore throat, and the sudden onset of severely congested sinuses, and the presence in the house of a sickly Fifth Disease vector makes me think I might have come down with exactly the same thing.

Or maybe tuberculosis. Or hemorrhagic fever. Or dysentery. Or cholera. Or a head cold. Or something.

And today of all days! Meeting with all those other Birmingham blog-writing intellectuals over at the Safari Cup place, and I will have to act even more stand-offish and reclusive than I normally do so as not to infect anyone. No handshakes, and even more depressing, no uncomfortably familiar hug for Sugarmama. I'm sure she's relieved, but it makes me very sad.

Maybe if I sprayed myself with Lysol beforehand...

Anyway, see all of you today at noon. The password is "pestilence."

Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 15, 2005 08:11 AM
Comments

If you lived in Huntsville, I'd say you were a victim of a pollen attack but I suppose that given the backwardness of B'ham and surroundings, it could be a major disease or not.

Posted by: Larry Anderson at June 15, 2005 08:21 AM

Anyway, enjoy lunch.

Posted by: Larry Anderson at June 15, 2005 08:22 AM

You mean you don’t regularly spray with Lysol?

Posted by: jim at June 15, 2005 09:22 AM

Hey, go for the gusto and gargle with the Lysol, if that'll cure it.

You may as well cover all bases and show up in a haz-mat suit. They supposedly make you look slimmer (probably from the sweating).

Posted by: MarcV at June 15, 2005 09:29 AM

They dark suits especially, Marc--Darth Vader does look quite trim, you know.

And no, I refuse to douse myself in Lysol on a daily basis, because it clashes with the DDT.

And Larry, there is no pollen left--all the rain washed it alll away.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 15, 2005 09:44 AM

Did you get a hug?

Posted by: Jordana at June 15, 2005 01:15 PM

NO! I am a steaming cauldron of illness, and I refuse to pass my ailment along to someone else! Although, in retrospect, it probably wouldn't have hurt anything, and so not only am I sick, I'm also just not very bright.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 15, 2005 01:59 PM